[Verse 1] yeah they say a name’s just a sound but yours is a frequency hits a vein in my chest like a needle of empathy shroo tee in your language a microtonal interval the smallest possible distance between two notes that’s surreal to me ’cause I’ve been a held breath since I was thirteen chemo in my marrow twelve gray of radiation between me and a future I wasn’t supposed to see and somehow we both made it here both wearing the scars underneath you lost a boy to a rope when you were just a kid I lost a lung’s worth of air to a hospital lid and now we’re laying in bed and your bunny’s asleep on the pillow and I’m scared of how much I love this god willow [Chorus] the smallest distance is the one we crossed I was a closed door you were the cost of everything I prayed for and lost and prayed for again half moon honey sun going slow the colors you keep the colors you keep nowhere to go nowhere to go [Verse 2] but here’s the part I don’t say out loud the part that eats me at night I’m a perfectionist with a brain that fires every red light right before commitment Denver flight meeting your mom every milestone in sight my amygdala swings like it’s looking for a fight she’s not aligned she’s not optimized she’s not on the same timeline shut up shut up shut up that voice ain’t mine that’s the voice of a kid who learned love could leave in an IV line who watched his own mother count platelets and cry so when I look at you and I blush and my hands start to shake it’s not because something is wrong it’s because something’s at stake I’ve been bracing for thirteen years and forgot how to break and you, mon cheri are the first soft place that don’t feel fake [Chorus] the smallest distance is the one we crossed I was a closed door you were the cost of everything I prayed for and lost and prayed for again half moon honey sun going slow the colors you keep the colors you keep nowhere to go nowhere to go [Bridge] listen you’re thirty five the clock is a real thing I know egg quality drops like a stone in the snow two to four cycles eighty k a kid that’s the cost and I hate that I’m scared while I’m still in your arms I hate that I count every loss like a prayer on my tongue but you make a home out of the ache in my chest and if love is a risk then I’m taking the test [Chorus] the smallest distance is the one we crossed I was a closed door you were the cost of everything I prayed for and lost and prayed for again half moon honey sun going slow the colors you keep the colors you keep nowhere to go nowhere to go
